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USE THIS TO STIR UP COURTS TO MAKE GIVING YOU YOUR RIGHTS A PRIORITY: The Constitution, on the other hand, does not partake of the prolixity of a legal code. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407 (1819). It speaks instead with a majestic simplicity. One of its important objects, ibid., is the designation of rights. And in its great outlines, ibid., the judiciary is clearly discernible as the primary means through which these rights may be enforced. As James Madison stated when he presented the Bill of Rights to the Congress: If [these rights] are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they 242*242 will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the Legislative or Executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights. 1 Annals of Cong. 439 (1789). Davis v. Passman, 442 US 228, 241-2 - Supreme Court 1979 scholar.google/scholar_case?case=7569635863878182953&q=%22373+U.S.+647%22&hl=en&as_sdt=4%2C60
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